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Coldcard mk5 looks dope.
Good to see the keyboard further improved, I still have PTSD from mk1...

https://video.nostr.build/3e6c76a55db21c94cbdb5743e6120d7a5c0f2f0d0a32b48736c86999fb3ef5c1.mp4

The Marmot Protocol has published its full specification as six Marmot Implementation Proposals covering everything from identity and group construction to encrypted media and privacy-preserving push notifications.
This post walks through each MIP to explain what the protocol does at every layer and how the cryptographic guarantees work in practice for users who care about private communication. The specs are open and the implementations are already shipping.

Two PRs to NanoClaw for adding marmot support!
https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/858
https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/901

@hzrd149 built this awesome view where you can see the latest key packages published by users, if you want someone to talk to on @White Noise this is a good way to find them!

https://marmot-protocol.github.io/marmots-web-chat/contacts/explore

New long form client by @Grafton @ Vexl
Very smooth distraction free UI!
https://samizdat.press/
Try it and give feedback for what can be done better.

Check out @V E C T O R, a cool nostr chat app that also supports marmot. This release brings back interoperability with @White Noise & Pika & Burrow & Marmot-ts web app!

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Looks like we have fixed the outbox model relay connections in @White Noise, users with a large follow list now don't get overwhelmed with relay connections, which caused messages to not be delivered or received.

We still have more polishing to do, but next release will hopefully work for your existing npubs!

This is a really cool idea!
It works
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Comparative advantage is one of the most misunderstood principles in economics, and AI has made the confusion worse. Most people think it means comparing yourself to others, but the real logic is internal: you should focus on the task where your own opportunity cost is lowest.
This post follows that insight through the hardest question AI raises, what happens when a machine beats the weaker worker at everything, and arrives at conclusions that neither the doomers nor the optimists want to hear.

It doesn't need to be fancy.
It just needs to be free.

Still the apple prison guards have not approved our update to White Noise, it's both hilarious and sad...
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Most people start chaining agents too early. They have a vague task, they split it into planner, writer, reviewer, tester, maybe even critic, and then they wonder why the result feels bloated, circular, and strangely fragile. The answer is simple: the chain did not remove uncertainty, it only distributed it across more participants.
The Ralph loop matters because it forces the system to keep working until the task crosses a clear finish line, which means the chain has to serve a concrete result instead of producing a polite pile of intermediate artifacts.

You can make @Amethyst search 100x better by adding these to your search relay list:
wss://antiprimal.net
wss://relay.ditto.pub
wss://nostr.wine
wss://nostr.wine

Thanks @Vitor Pamplona for that tip

Decentralized encrypted group messaging has been called impossible by the people who built the best encrypted messengers on earth. Moxie Marlinspike designed Signal as deliberately centralized because he concluded that federated protocols freeze in time while the world moves forward, and even the IETF's multi-year effort to build MLS still required a central delivery service.
Now the Marmot protocol offers the first credible specification for solving this problem at the protocol layer, and interoperable implementations are already shipping.

You must use nostr with Tor or a VPN.
It is so easy for anyone to link your npub to an IP, and it better not be your real IP...
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Hilarious that the prison guards have still not reviewed the update...
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We probably identified the issue with the relay connection in @White Noise, fix is being worked on now!
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-rs/blob/ca355847562e04667d1b591dfd306309601b68ff/relay-control-plane-rearchitecture.md
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The latest @White Noise release works well for new npubs, but if you have a lot of follows, the app connects to too many relays and gets overwhelmed, messages don't get sent or received then.
Even when you log out of that large account, the error will persist, so you'll have to wipe the storage completely and log in with a fresh of low follow count account.
Please have a bit of patience, the next release should fix that, sorry!

Ok ok, let's be real & stay humble, it's not really working, just less broken... 🙃
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Now with amber support I'm finally using White Noise on my main account, shoot me a DM please if you want to test!
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Only out on @Zapstore for now.
Apple prisoners will get it when the guards allow us to send them a letter into the gulag.
Use a real computer if you want to use the cool stuff.
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Finally White Noise release is out!
This is the first release that I'm actually comfortable with to recommend to friends.
Insanely proud of the team, so much work was done!

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We also switched to date based release numbers.

About to go live, join and learn more about #GrapheneOS
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The next White Noise release will *actually* just work.
I know I said that about the last couple releases too, but now it might actually be true!

@White Noise now has a command line interface for desktop!
This is perfect for your ai agent to learn how to send private messages.

https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-rs/pull/537

@J.G.Montoya.Hodl

marmot-ts v0.3.0 is released! #03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/marmot-protocol/marmot-ts/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#03

This is how you chat with your friends encrypted in the browser.

The blind signature is the oldest and most consequential trick in privacy cryptography, yet most people who benefit from it daily have never seen how it works. This post traces the full family tree: Chaum's RSA construction, Wagner's elliptic curve variant, Schnorr blinding and the attack that nearly killed it, BLS threshold signatures, and the algebraic MACs that replaced them all. Each scheme gets an intuitive walkthrough showing why it works and which real systems chose which construction.

MDK v0.7.0 is out on crates

Audio book of Rothbard at 100:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPsGN9FqHc8Ffe9arjt-t6ZEcg_ZBgxva

Doing a webinar on how to secure your grapheneOS phone while traveling, March 5th 1700 UTC

http://shopinbit.com/webinar